http://www.physorg.com/news148149549.html

Just another delicious source of fuel... When can the Starbucks drive thru gimme a Tall Latte and a gallon of Bio? I know they give the grounds away now for gardens but I think you'd need a olive oil press, and eliminating the H2O could be cost prohibitive

"Spent coffee grounds contain between 11 and 20 percent oil by weight. That's about as much as traditional biodiesel feedstocks such as rapeseed, palm, and soybean oil."

"The resulting coffee-based fuel — which actually smells like java — had a major advantage in being more stable than traditional biodiesel due to coffee's high antioxidant content, the researchers say. Solids left over from the conversion can be converted to ethanol or used as compost, the report notes."

looks like someones trying:
http://desertbiofuels.blogspot.com/2009/01/coffee-diesel.html

I read another article I can't find @ the moment that the "rejected" beans from growers would also be a suitable resource in those countrys.

Man, don't tell my wife about this. I HATE HATE HATE the smell of coffee. I want to run the CRD on bacon grease. Now that smell I could live with all the time.

I love it when a truck runs buy that is running bio made with grease from french fries

If the Biodiesel still smells like the French fry oil it was made from, it was a very poor conversion. Properly converted Bio smells like Bio only. That being said, I intentionally under reacted a few batches of coconut oil BD just for the aroma, but nothing can compare to the smell of straight oil.

If you get Willie Nelson's BioDiesel - they don't really know what the bio part is -
but the drivers behind you get a lot calmer & mellow out -

If you get Willie Nelson's BioDiesel - they don't really know what the bio part is -
but the drivers behind you get a lot calmer & mellow out -

Coffee was evil until Starbucks started selling it for $4 a cup, Now, Starbucks is a green company that even the Dead Tree Hugging Pine Bark Petting Idiots LOVE.

So, if our exhaust smelled like Starbucks, our Diesels would suddenly be the Savior of the Environment and even the Great Political Messiah who just moved into a rent free house in Washington DC would order his Limo be converted to a Green Technology Common Rail Diesel (like the New Cummins) along with all the other Secret Service SUVs

Think of what this would do for Chrysler and the rest of the car industry

Starbucks should invest in Coffee Bio Jet fuel for their private jet as well

If the Biodiesel still smells like the French fry oil it was made from, it was a very poor conversion. Properly converted Bio smells like Bio only. That being said, I intentionally under reacted a few batches of coconut oil BD just for the aroma, but nothing can compare to the smell of straight oil.

so I followed up on the folks in AZ that were gonna try this and it failed miserably. http://desertbiofuels.blogspot.com/2009/01/coffee-diesel-update.html

"To get 15ml of coffee oil Ken lost 70ml of hexane during the extraction process (he recovered 230ml). Since hexane costs about $16 a gallon, plus shipping and hazmat fees, we probably aren't looking at a new feedstock for biodiesel! A lot of the hexane lost was residue in the coffee grounds that evaporated out when the grounds were dried, after extracting the oil. Residual hexane in the coffee oil also reduced the final amount of coffee oil."